%0 Journal Article
%T Antifungal Properties of Some Mexican Medicinal Plants
%A Luz Maria Dami¨¢n-Badillo
%A Rafael Salgado-Garciglia
%A Rosa Elisa Mart¨ªnez-Mu oz and Mauro Manuel Mart¨ªnez-PachecoArtemisia ludovicianaHeliopsis longipesSatureja macrostemaTagetes lucidaA. ludovicianaH. longipesT. lucidaCandida albicansColletotrichumlindemuthianumMucor circinelloidesSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSporothrix schenckiiA. ludovicianaA. ludovicianaT. lucidacis
%J The Open Natural Products Journal
%D 2008
%I 
%R 10.2174/1874848100801010027]
%X The antifungal properties of some extracts from Artemisia ludoviciana Nutt., Heliopsis longipes ¡®A. Gray¡¯ Blake., Satureja macrostema Benth. and Tagetes lucida Cav. were analyzed, using the agar disc diffusion method. After 72 h incubation, the plant extracts inhibited the growth of fungi, but the ethyl acetate and methanol-chloroform extracts from A. ludoviciana, H. longipes and T. lucida inhibited all the fungi assayed: Candida albicans, Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, Mucor circinelloides, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Sporothrix schenckii. The spore germination inhibition assay suggested that methanol-chloroform extract from A. ludoviciana was the most active against the fungi tested. The methanol-chloroform and ethyl acetate extracts from A. ludoviciana and T. lucida had pronounced antifungal activity against fungi tested. Compounds found in the leaves methanol-chloroform extracts from A. ludoviciana were analyzed by using GC/MS; the major compounds were: 1-8-cineole, camphor, borneol, cis-verbenol, myrtenol, eugenol, cariophyllene, ¦Á-farnesene, spathulenol, derivatives of caryophyllene and derivatives of spathulenol.
%U http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tonpj/articles/V001/27TONPJ.htm